Quotes About Stand-up

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

The No 1 priority in TV comedy today is 'don't frighten the horses,' and it's probably No 2 and 3 as well.

I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

Billy Connolly is probably the greatest stand-up this country has ever produced and he swears all the time.

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

I think I am someone who is very interested in structure and different ways of delivering jokes.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

I've never been a dirty comic.

Stand-up's a lottery - you think it's funny but the audience can disagree.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

If an audience is watching you and you're a bloke - it's the same as if you're a woman. They're expecting the same: to be entertained.

My first stand-up experience was in Tallahassee at a club called Potbelly's.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Chris Rock, I think is pretty brilliant, and Amy Schumer's fabulous.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.